Lectures in obstetrics, 1925-1928

The manuscript consists of typed lectures on obstetrics for students at the South Carolina Baptist Hospital School of Nursing. The pages have been glued by Dr. Welbourne into a scrapbook. The inside front cover lists the members and officers of the Baptist Hospital Class of 1926-1927 as well as student nurses at the "Good Samaritan," 1927-1928. Toward the end of the volume, Welbourne includes the State Board of Medical Examination questions for 1926, her own examination questions, and the grades for eight students in 1926. Lectures are practical in nature and cover anatomy and physiology, changes during pregnancy, the "hygiene of pregnancy," preparation for labor and delivery, the duties of the nurse with respect to the physician, anesthesia, presentations of the child, preparation for obstetric operations including Caesarian section, miscarriages and abortion, care during the puerperium to prevent infection, breastfeeding, and care of the infant and mother. The directions are primarily for delivery by a nurse working with a physician in the home of the patient "where the majority of births still take place," but Welbourne also discusses the delivery room in the hospital which "is rapidly becoming standardized." There is indication that the material was revised for teaching nurses at Good Samaritan